Mountain Bike Series, Round One

Kim Little was the dominant rider at the opening round of the GDW winter mountain bike series.  Kim led throughout to beat Andy Parsons by just over a minute by the end of the ‘one hour plus a lap’ race.  Anyd had a...

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GDW Mountain Bike Races

The first of this winter’s mountain bike races will be taking place this Saturday night, at the usual venue of Alfred’s Tower woods.  The race will start at 1930 so please make sure you get there early to get signed...

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TLI 2 Day Stage Race

TLI’s two day stage race took place this weekend, with a very strong line up of riders this year.  As always, stage one was a hillclimb prologue up Wick Lane in Downton.  Kim Little led the way for the GDW entrants, racing...

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Return of Trophies

Can the winners of last years perpetual club trophies please return them to Wheels Cycles, Gillingham by Saturday 3rd Nov so they can be engraved ready for the awards presentation.

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Hillclimbs and 2-up

The last two hilllclimbs at Mere have produced very similar results, with Kim Little beating Josh Day and James Chant at both last week’s event and tonight’s.  Kim has now clinched the hillclimb championship while...

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TLI 2 Day Stage Race

One of the best events of the year, Glenn Longland’s 2 day/three stage race is on October 6th and 7th this year, entry is now open.  Entry form and other details are attached to this post

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Recent Open and Club TT’s

Four Gillingham and District Wheeler/Wheels Cycles riders were among a field of 63 riders in the West DC Open 25 mile time trial held near Cricklade.  Vince Hounsome was first Wheeler with a mid-table time of 0:56:39 (32nd),...

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Olympic Club Run – Weymouth

I am proposing to do a GDW club run to Weymouth (well actually Preston and the Oasis Cafe) on either Sat 4th or Sun 5th Aug.  There are Olympic sailing events on both days so we will be able to view the racing from the seafront...

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Wyke TT and Other News

Simon Barfoot got another maximum points score tonight, just beating Nigel Brown and Vince Hounsome.  Simon only needs one more win to get the maximum possible points total.  It was a fast night this evening, with the perfect...

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9-up Team Time Trial

The Bicester Millenium club are holding a 9-up team time trial at Silverstone GP circuit on Friday 10th August.  GDW have a spot provisionally reserved for a team which the club are going to pay the entry fee for.  If anyone...

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Round Up

Josh Day won tonight’s hillclimb, crossing the line in 4.42.  There was a nagging head/crosswind for the riders to push against resulting in slower times than normal.  James Chant was second in 5.03 with Simon Barfoot in...

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Gold Hill Bread Winner

A few photos from Sunday’s Gold Hill hillclimb, organised by Colin Dennis of En Route Cycling with a lot of help from Julian and Theresa from Offcamber and a few marshals/timekeepers from GDW .  Haven’t found any...

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Bruton tt and other news

Paul Hopkins won tonight’s tt at Bruton, where some really good weather conditions led to a lot of quick times by the riders.  Paul finished with 45.59, nearly two minutes ahead of championship leader Simon Barfoot (47.46,...

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Wyke 10 and Hillclimb Results

Junior rider Josh Day beat allcomers at both the hillclimb and time trial this week, making it four consecutive wins for him.  He set a time of 23.57 at the Wyke 10 to beat Simon Barfoot by three quarters of a minute.  Vince...

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Bruton TT

32 competitors were treated to really good riding conditions at tonight’s Bruton tt.  Josh Day continued his impressive run of form by setting the quickest time of 47.22 to win both the juniors’ section and the...

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GDW 1-2

Nigel Brown and James Chant were first and second at tonight’s Frome Wheelers 5 mile time trial.  There were only seven riders competing but a win is a win!  It was the host club’s opening evening event of the year,...

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Stour Provost TT – Other News

Only 16 riders turned out for tonight’s tt, the sensible ones stayed away.  The conditions weren’t quite as bad as it looked like it was going to be compared to mid-afternoon, but a strong West wind meant that the...

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Stour Provost TT

It was a really fast night at the second round of the GDW time trial championship, lots of riders improved by over a minute compared to last week, some by two minutes and there were a few pbs as well.Paul Hopkins set the...

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Mere Hillclimb

The first hillclimb of the year took place yesterday, with most riders finding it a big shock to the system.  Despite good weather conditions, times were a little slower than normal. Josh Day was quickest, the only person under...

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EDCA R2/GDW TTs

Jane Pritchard won the ladies section of the second round of the EDCA series yesterday.  Jane beat Sarah Woods and Judith Martin with a time of 1.09.08 on the hilly 24 mile course which runs from...

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GDW Club Forum

Just to let everyone know, if you weren’t aware GDW has a Google Groups forum that is open to all (you have to request access in order to post – this is to prevent spam posts).You need to have a valid email address...

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TT News

The EDCA hilly time trial series kicked off last weekend, beginning with one of the hardest events on its calendar, the 25 mile tt based at Wool.  The course takes the riders up the hill out of Wool to Lulworth on three...

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GDW Open Results

Thanks to everyone who helped out at the Open yesterday, there were lots of compliments from the riders afterwards so pat yourselves on the back.Rob Pears (Bath CC) was the overall winner for the third year in a row, beating...

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